A Message from The Churchwardens

We would like to thank everyone who has helped and supported us through the vacancy.  Your assistance, kind words, prayers and forbearance when things go wrong means a lot to us.  So we would like to thank you!

At the moment, we particularly need more volunteers to serve coffees after services in both churches.  However there are also many other roles to which your gifts may be suited – church cleaning, welcomers, readers, news sheet delivery to name but a few.   St Peter’s particularly needs people to be at the door before services to greet folk and hand out hymn books.  If you can help in any way, please speak to one of us.

George, Janet, Sarah, & Sue

DATE FOR YOUR DIARIES
Sunday 5th June        10.30am at St Decuman’s       Civic Service to celebrate HM The Queen's Platinum Jubilee

   **** Please note this is at St Decuman'sNOTat The Methodist Church as incorrectly noted in "Watchet Connects" ****

Thursday 21st  July    7.00pm at St Peter's                Licensing of Revd Mark Phillips

Civic Service at St Decuman’s

Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

This is advance notice that we will have a Civic Service at St Decuman’s on Sunday 5th June at 10.30am, with the Town Mayor and Councillors in attendance.   As it won’t be a communion service, we will have a communion at 9am.

More details to follow.

The Sixth Sunday of Easter is sometimes also known as ‘Rogation Sunday’ (Latin rogare – to ask) when the Church prays especially for all who work in agriculture. In country areas, people traditionally process through the fields praying for God’s blessing on the crops and livestock. Today the Church also anticipates the great festival (next Thursday) of our Lord’s Ascension into heaven, having completed his saving work on earth.

Quantock Deanery Prayer Diary -  Every day of the month we pray for different people in our Deanery

Watchet & Williton Benefice
22nd        Mark Phillips (Vicar designate); Jane Sperring (Methodist), Mike Sherburn (Baptist), Sam Searle (Salvation Army), Vincent Woods (Roman Catholic)
23rd         Donna Marsden, Julie Pelling (Readers)                                                
24th         Richard Allen, Andrew Tatham (Retired clergy)
25th         Danesfield C of E Middle School, Knights Templar C of E & Methodist First School, St Peter’s C of E First School

Chaplaincies
26th         The Staff and visitors to Great Wood Camp, Patrick Weld (Chaplain)
27th         The employees and contractors at the three Hinkley Point Power Stations (A, B, and C), Ewen Huffman (Chaplain to HPC) and volunteer chaplains
28th         The staff and patients of Cannington Health Centre, Quantock Medical Centre (Nether Stowey)

                 West Somerset Healthcare (Watchet and Williton surgeries), Williton Community Hospital, and the staff and residents of Croft House (Williton)

                 and The Old Vicarage Care Home (Stockland)

And don’t forget…

Eliza is aiming ro run 100km this month to raise funds for SOS Chai, along with some other members of the team.

If you would like to sponsor her, you can use the just giving link here: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/soschai14

You can keep up to date with Eliza’s progress on the challenge via

her instagram page @elizapfrance

Cream Teas

This year we have decided to do cream teas at St Peter’s throughout the summer rather than all in August.

The dates will be 12 and 26 June, 03 and 17 July and

07 and 21 August. 

On 03 July we would like to incorporate a mini fete - more details to follow. If you are able to help on any of these days, please could you let either Liz Payne or myself know.

Thank you, Sara.  sara.hempshall@hotmail.co.uk or07427-969892.
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‘MARITIME MAYHEM’ AT THE EAST QUAY, WATCHET
FRIDAY 27TH – SUNDAY 29TH MAY

WHICH FINISHES WITH A DRAMA

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‘HOLY COW!’

FEATURING A TIME-TRAVELLING ST DECUMAN AND HIS COW

SUNDAY 29 MAY 2022 at 5:30pm

Free-of-Charge

This performance is the finale to Watchet's Maritime Mayhem weekend.

Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the project will also result in new permanent displays to be held at the Boat Museum and at East Quay as well as a series of animated films to keep the stories alive into the future.

HOLY COW! is inspired by the story of St. Decuman, Watchet's now-beloved patron saint, and his cow. Famously, St Decuman travelled from Wales intent on converting the heathens of Watchet... (SPOILER: he wasn't well received and lost his head in the process!).

But this isn’t our story. Our retelling of this local legend sees Decuman and his cow lose each other in the fabled Bristol Triangle, each being propelled on a separate journey through time and Watchet’s rich history. Come see the pirates and poets, landowners and landlubbers, seafarers and shantymen, as our two lost souls work their way through 1,316 years to find each other again.